Citizens, politics, and social communication : information and influence in an election campaign
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Citizens, politics, and social communication : information and influence in an election campaign
（Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Available at 35 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [293]-302
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation. This book is dedicated to investigating the political implications of interdependent citizens within the context of the 1984 presidential campaign as it was experienced in the metropolitan area of South Bend, Indiana. Hence this is a community study in the fullest sense of the term. National politics is experienced locally through a series of filters unique to a particular setting and its consequences for the exercise of democratic citizenship.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Democratic Politics and Social Communication: 1. The multiple levels of democratic politics
- 2. A research strategy for studying electoral politics
- Part II. Electoral Dynamics and Social Communication: 3. The social dynamics of political preference
- 4. Durability, volatility and social influence
- 5. Social dynamics in an election campaign
- Part III. Networks, Political Discussants, and Social Communication: 6. Political discussion in an election campaign
- 7. Networks in context: The social flow of political information
- 8. Choice, social structure, and the informational coercion of minorities
- 9. Discussant effects on vote choice: Intimacy, structure, and interdependence
- 10. Gender effects on political discussion: The political networks of men and women
- Part IV. The Organizational Locus of Social Communication: 11. One-party politics and the voter revisited: strategic and behavioral bases of partisanship
- 12. Political parties and electoral mobilization: political structure, social structure, and the party canvass
- 13. Alternative contexts of political preference
- 14. Political consequences of interdependent citizens
- Bibliography
- Index.
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